Friday, December 16, 2011

Friend or Foe?

In my last blog post I wrote about the Davis-Decker feud which I had read about on a genealogy message board. I wish I could remember where I read about this feud. It was a few years ago while I was on maternity leave and not getting much sleep. I had put my genealogical research on hold many times over the years. I currently have a subscription to Ancestry.com but didn't at the time of my son's birth and wasn't doing much research back then.
The 1930 census shows my son's great-grandfather living in Marlborough, NY but the censuses before that show the Deckers in Newburgh and Plattekill. The Davises were in Marlborough as of the 1850 census. The head of household for that census, Charles Davis was born in NY in 1800 but I don't know where. I checked the 1850 and 1860 censuses for Deckers in Marlborough and found quite a few. Are these my Deckers? Are these Deckers the ancestors of my son's father?

The Davises and the Deckers. Were they friends or really foes? Were they feuding neighbors? I'd like to know.